4 Chuen
Blue
Self-Existing Monkey
Tanka*
Because you are now
Free to fly, I shine, glisten
And glimmer like a
Clear crystal Tear on the Tip
Of your out-stretched feathered Wing.
*Tanka: A
Japanese form of poetry comprised of five lines and 31 syllables: five, seven,
five, seven, and seven syllables respectively.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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